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Varsity   /vˈɑrsɪti/   Listen
noun
Varsity  n.  
1.
Colloquial contraction of University. (Brit.)
2.
The team with the best players of a school or club, being the main representative of the organization in competitive play between schools or organizations. In schools, contrasted with junior varsity. Also used attributively, as, the varsity football team.





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"Varsity" Quotes from Famous Books



... coach of Bliss University, affectionately known and revered by two thousand undergraduates as "Skipper Bill" sat in the locker room with his arm around Ted Robertson's shoulders, star halfback and punter of the varsity eleven. Around them moved the other varsity players, substitutes, second string men, ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various
... man can't | |plunge very far when two or three opposing linemen | |are sitting on him, as they were in the M. A. C. and| |Syracuse games. | | | |Catlett is a streak of speed, and since this is his | |third year of varsity football, he is playing more | |intelligently than ever. Roehm, the quarterback, was| |one of Hughitt's understudies last season. He is | |light, but fast and willing. | | | |Thus in the back field we have a ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... Professor, just because he happened to be handy. She was a sweet young thing with cheek dimples and a trilly laugh, and—well, you can guess the rest. Only, when little sister has made a complete hash of things, she skips merrily off and marries a prominent 'varsity quarter-back who has water on the knee and the promise of a nine-dollar-a-week job in ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford
... empty boxes, got the window open, and thrust his head and one shoulder through the opening. That, however, was as far as he could go. A dwarf might have squeezed through that window, but not an ex-varsity athlete like Russell Brooks or a husky longshoreman like "John Brown." It was at the back, facing the mouth of the creek and the sea, and afforded a beautiful marine view, but that was all. He dropped back on the fish nets and audibly expressed his opinion ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... to break out into personal paragraphs); writers like Fermin and Gresham, above me on the literary ladder, and consequently unapproachable in a matter of this kind; certain college friends, who had vanished into space, as men do on coming down from the 'Varsity, leaving no address; John Hatton, Sidney Price, and ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse


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